"""Unforgiven"", a film in which he directed and starred as an aging ex-gunfighter long past his prime. Scripts existed for the film as early as 1976 under titles such as ""The Cut-Whore Killings"" and ""The William Munny Killings"" but Eastwood delayed the project because he wanted to wait until he was old enough to play his character and to savor it as the last of his western films. ""Unforgiven"" was a major commercial and critical success; Jack Methews of the ""Los Angeles Times"" described it as ""the finest classical western to come along since perhaps John Ford's 1956 ""The Searchers""."
"Buddy Van Horn Buddy Van Horn (born August 20, 1929) is an American stunt coordinator and film director. He directed the Clint Eastwood films ""Any Which Way You Can"" (1980), ""The Dead Pool"" (1988), and ""Pink Cadillac"" (1989). A long-time stunt double for Eastwood, he was credited as the stunt coordinator on Eastwood's films from 1972 to 2011, and as second unit director on ""Magnum Force"" (1973) and ""The Rookie"" (1990). He was sometimes credited as Wayne Van Horn in the 1980s. He earlier doubled for Guy Williams on Disney's ""Zorro"", and Gregory Peck. Van Horn's most prominent onscreen appearance"
"he also directed, produced, and partly scored with his son Kyle and Jamie Cullum. Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a recently widowed Korean War veteran alienated from his family and angry at the world. Walt's young neighbor, Thao Vang Lor, is pressured into stealing Walt's prized 1972 Ford by his cousin for his initiation into a gang. Walt thwarts the theft and subsequently develops a relationship with the boy and his family. Biographer Marc Eliot called Eastwood's role ""an amalgam of the ""Man with No Name, Dirty Harry"", and ""William Munny"", here, aged and cynical, but willing and able to fight"
"is the role of Marshal Jim Duncan in the Eastwood film ""High Plains Drifter"" (1973). Buddy Van Horn Buddy Van Horn (born August 20, 1929) is an American stunt coordinator and film director. He directed the Clint Eastwood films ""Any Which Way You Can"" (1980), ""The Dead Pool"" (1988), and ""Pink Cadillac"" (1989). A long-time stunt double for Eastwood, he was credited as the stunt coordinator on Eastwood's films from 1972 to 2011, and as second unit director on ""Magnum Force"" (1973) and ""The Rookie"" (1990). He was sometimes credited as Wayne Van Horn in the 1980s. He earlier doubled"
"out a warning to the townsfolk that he will return for more vengeance if Logan is not buried properly or if any of the prostitutes are harmed. A title card epilogue says that Munny may have moved with his children to San Francisco, where he prospered in dry goods. The film was written by David Webb Peoples, who had written the Oscar nominated film ""The Day After Trinity"" and co-written ""Blade Runner"" with Hampton Fancher. The concept for the film dated to 1976, when it was developed under the titles ""The Cut-Whore Killings"" and ""The William Munny Killings"". By Eastwood's"
"""an amalgam of the Man with No Name, Dirty Harry, and William Munny, here aged and cynical but willing and able to fight on whenever the need arose"". ""Gran Torino"" grossed almost $30 million during its opening weekend release in January 2009, the highest of his career as an actor or director. ""Gran Torino"" eventually grossed over $268 million in theaters worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of Eastwood's career so far (without adjustment for inflation). Eastwood's 30th directorial outing came with ""Invictus"", a film based on the story of the South African team at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with"
"Clint Eastwood filmography Clint Eastwood is an American film actor, director, producer, and composer. After beginning his acting career exclusively with small uncredited film roles and television appearances, his career has spanned more than 50 years. Eastwood has acted in several television series, most notably ""Rawhide"". His role in the eight-season series led to his leading roles in ""A Fistful of Dollars"", ""For a Few Dollars More"", and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". Eastwood has appeared in over 50 films and has starred in 42 films, including ""Hang 'Em High"", ""Play Misty for Me"", ""Dirty Harry"", ""Escape from"
"before we could consider him bad at it. And acting isn't required of him in ""Magnum Force""."" Rotten Tomatoes sampled 20 reviewers and judged 80% of the reviews to be positive. Magnum Force Magnum Force is a 1973 American action thriller and the second to feature Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan after the 1971 film ""Dirty Harry"". Ted Post, who also directed Eastwood in the television series ""Rawhide"" and the feature film ""Hang 'Em High"", directed this second installment in the ""Dirty Harry"" film series. The screenplay was written by John Milius (who provided an uncredited rewrite for"
"Scott Eastwood Scott Eastwood (born Scott Clinton Reeves; March 21, 1986) is an American actor and model. He has appeared in the films ""Flags of Our Fathers"" (2006), ""Gran Torino"" (2008), ""Invictus"" (2009), ""The Forger"" (2012), ""Trouble with the Curve"" (2012), ""Texas Chainsaw"" (2013), ""Fury"" (2014), ""The Perfect Wave"" (2014), ""The Longest Ride"" (2015), ""Mercury Plains"" (2016), ""Suicide Squad"" (2016), ""Snowden"" (2016), ""Walk of Fame"" (2017), ""The Fate of the Furious"" (2017), ""Overdrive"" (2017), and ""Pacific Rim Uprising"" (2018). He has also been the model for the fragrance Cool Water by Davidoff. He is the youngest son of Academy Award-winning"
"Clint Eastwood's few ""amigos"" in the town of San Miguel. He later appeared in westerns such as ""I Giorni dell'ira"" (1967) opposite Lee Van Cleef, ""Anda muchacho, spara!"" (1971) and ""Dust in the Sun"" (1973) etc. However, after the Spaghetti western era of the late 1960s, in the 1970s he returned to appearing in primarily Spanish films and in contrast to the roles which dominated much of his career did appear in several Spanish comedy films often with slapstick humor as that genre grew popular in Latin cinema during this period. He died in Gran Canaria on May 16, 1980,"
"also known as ""Stars in the Dust"". He gained experience behind the set, watching productions and dubbing and editing sessions of other films at Universal Studios, notably the Montgomery Clift/Elizabeth Taylor/Shelley Winters film ""A Place in the Sun"". Universal presented him with his first TV role with a small television debut on NBC's ""Allen in Movieland"" on July 2, 1955, starring actor Tony Curtis and musician Benny Goodman. Although his records at Universal revealed his development, Universal terminated his contract on October 25, 1955, leaving Eastwood gutted and blaming casting director Robert Palmer, on whom he would exact revenge years"
"Will Penny Will Penny is a 1968 western film written and directed by Tom Gries starring Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett and Donald Pleasence. The picture was based upon an episode of the 1960 Sam Peckinpah television series ""The Westerner"" called ""Line Camp,"" which was also written and directed by Tom Gries. Heston mentioned that this was his favorite film in which he appeared. The supporting cast features Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and Slim Pickens. As the film opens a trail drive is coming to an end, with the resulting payoff of the now out-of-work trail hands. A trio of punchers,"
"""Silent Running"" and Eastwood's second Dirty Harry film, ""Magnum Force"") before moving on to directing. Cimino's work on ""Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"" impressed Eastwood enough to ask him to work on the script for ""Magnum Force"" before ""Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"" began production. Cimino moved up to directing on the feature ""Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"" (1974). The film stars Clint Eastwood as a Korean War vet named ""Thunderbolt"" who takes a young drifter named ""Lightfoot"", played by Jeff Bridges, under his wing. When Thunderbolt's old partners try to find him, he and Lightfoot make a pact with them to pull one last big"
"who can play stubborn, battle-scarred, casually racist characters in his sleep."" The Mule (2018 film) The Mule is a 2018 American crime film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also plays the lead role. The screenplay is by Nick Schenk, based on ""The New York Times"" article ""The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule"" by Sam Dolnick. The film is inspired by the true story of Leo Sharp, a World War II veteran in his 80s who became a drug dealer and courier for the Sinaloa Cartel. Along with Eastwood, the film stars Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne"
"Oscar nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture for ""Letters from Iwo Jima"". In 2008, Eastwood directed ""Changeling"", based on a true story, starring Angelina Jolie. In 2009, Eastwood directed ""Invictus"", with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as rugby team captain François Pienaar. John Carlin, author of the book on which the film is based, sold the film rights to Freeman. Then in 2011, Clint Eastwood collaborated with Brad Paisley to make the song ""Eastwood"". Clint Eastwood in the 2000s In 2000, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in ""Space Cowboys"" as Frank Corvin, a retired NASA engineer"
"Good Will Hunting Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film, directed by Gus Van Sant, and starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, and Stellan Skarsgård. Written by Affleck and Damon, the film follows 20-year-old South Boston laborer Will Hunting, an unrecognized genius who, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a client of a therapist and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor. Through his therapy sessions, Will re-evaluates his relationships with his best friend, his girlfriend, and himself, facing the significant task of confronting his past and thinking"
"Iron Will Iron Will is a 1994 American adventure film directed by Charles Haid, it stars Mackenzie Astin, Kevin Spacey, David Ogden Stiers, George Gerdes, Brian Cox, Penelope Windust and August Schellenberg. In 1917, Will Stoneman's (Mackenzie Astin) father is killed in a mushing accident falling into a frozen river, leaving Will to care for his family. Needing money for college and to save the family farm in South Dakota, United States, Will decides to travel to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Here he will take part in the dog-sled race that his father would have entered to save the farm. During"
"filming ""unharmed, unscratched, unused."" Actor Clive Mantle, who plays the racist bouncer Harry, has the distinction of being the only person to successfully beat up Clint Eastwood in a film (not counting ""Every Which Way But Loose"" when he intentionally loses). Mantle was roughly half Eastwood's age and reportedly had trouble keeping up with him during filming of the fight scene. Although Eastwood had suffered beatings in other films, most notably ""Dirty Harry"", its sequel ""Sudden Impact"" and later ""Unforgiven"", they usually involved him being outnumbered or outmatched; this was the first and only time he was defeated in a"
"Bronco Billy Bronco Billy is a 1980 American film starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke. It was directed by Eastwood and written by Dennis Hackin. ""Bronco Billy's Wild West Show"" is a rundown traveling circus, the star of which is Bronco Billy McCoy (Clint Eastwood), the ""fastest gun in the West."" For the show's finale, a blindfolded Bronco Billy shoots balloons around a female assistant on a revolving wooden disc, and for the last balloon, he throws a knife. However, the assistant moves her leg and is nicked, so she quits. The show is not making any money, and nobody"
"an emergency landing, keeping all passengers on board alive. Released in the United States in September 2016, it became another commercial success for Eastwood, grossing over $238 million worldwide. In 2018, he directed the biographical thriller """", which saw previously non-professional actors Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos playing themselves as they stop the 2015 Thalys train attack. The film received a generally negative reception from critics, who were largely critical of the acting by the three leads. The Mule, in which he is director and lead, was released in December 2018. Beginning with the thriller ""Play Misty for"
"Man with No Name The Man with No Name () is the protagonist portrayed by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's ""Dollars Trilogy"" of Spaghetti Western films: ""A Fistful of Dollars"" (1964), ""For a Few Dollars More"" (1965) and ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" (1966). He is easily recognizable due to his iconic poncho, brown hat, tan cowboy boots, fondness for cigarillos and the fact that he rarely talks. Since he never received an official name in any of the films, he is conventionally known as ""the man with no name"". When Clint Eastwood was honored with the American"
"Magnum Force Magnum Force is a 1973 American action thriller and the second to feature Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan after the 1971 film ""Dirty Harry"". Ted Post, who also directed Eastwood in the television series ""Rawhide"" and the feature film ""Hang 'Em High"", directed this second installment in the ""Dirty Harry"" film series. The screenplay was written by John Milius (who provided an uncredited rewrite for the original film) and Michael Cimino. The film score was once again composed by Lalo Schifrin. This film features early appearances by David Soul, Tim Matheson and Robert Urich. At 124"
"Schickel argued that the character of Bronco Billy is Eastwood's most self-referential work. Janet Maslin of ""The New York Times"" wrote that the film was ""the best and funniest Clint Eastwood movie in quite a while"", praising Eastwood's directing and the way he intricately juxtaposes the old West and the new. Later in 1980, he reprised his role in the sequel to ""Every Which Way But Loose"" entitled ""Any Which Way You Can"". The film was another box-office success and was among the top five highest-grossing films of the year. Later on Wednesday, December 17, 1980 he appeared in the"
"has received Academy Awards, Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and People's Choice Awards, among others. Eastwood is one of only two people to have been twice nominated for Best Actor and Best Director for the same film (""Unforgiven"" and ""Million Dollar Baby"") the other being Warren Beatty (""Heaven Can Wait"" and ""Reds""). Along with Beatty, Robert Redford, Richard Attenborough, Kevin Costner, and Mel Gibson, he is one of the few directors best known as an actor to win an Academy Award for directing. On February 27, 2005, he became one of only three living directors (along with"
"marble or wax and inferior to the acting abilities of Robert De Niro, saying, ""Eastwood moves like a sleepwalker between explosions and hails of bullets, and he is always the same—a block of marble. Bobby first of all is an actor, Clint first of all is a star. Bobby suffers, Clint yawns."" Eastwood later gave a friend the poncho he wore in the three films, where it was hung in a Mexican restaurant in Carmel, California. Director Sergio Leone noted that the film's main theme is its emphasis on violence and the deconstruction of Old West romanticism. Like many of"
"for a Razzie Award for Worst Original Song for ""No Sweeter Cheater than You"". Honkytonk Man Honkytonk Man is a 1982 American musical drama film set in the Great Depression. Clint Eastwood, who produced and directed, stars with his son, Kyle Eastwood. Clancy Carlile's screenplay is based on his novel of the same name. This was Marty Robbins' last appearance before he died. The story of Eastwood's character, Red Stovall is loosely based on the life of Jimmie Rodgers. Itinerant western singer Red Stovall suffers from tuberculosis but has been given an opportunity to make it big at the Grand"
"former presidents who uncover scandalous activity by their successor (Dan Aykroyd) and are pursued by murderous NSA agents.<ref name=""http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=myfellowamericans.htm""></ref> In addition to a major recurring role during the last part of the run of TV series ""Chicago Hope"", Garner also starred in two short-lived series, the animated ""God, the Devil and Bob"" and ""First Monday"", in which he played a Supreme Court justice. In 2000, after an operation to replace both knees,<ref name=""http://articles.latimes.com/2000/apr/12/entertainment/ca-18538""> </ref> Garner appeared with Clint Eastwood, who had played a villain in the original ""Maverick"" series in the episode ""Duel at Sundown,"" as astronauts in the movie"
"2016. Scott Eastwood Scott Eastwood (born Scott Clinton Reeves; March 21, 1986) is an American actor and model. He has appeared in the films ""Flags of Our Fathers"" (2006), ""Gran Torino"" (2008), ""Invictus"" (2009), ""The Forger"" (2012), ""Trouble with the Curve"" (2012), ""Texas Chainsaw"" (2013), ""Fury"" (2014), ""The Perfect Wave"" (2014), ""The Longest Ride"" (2015), ""Mercury Plains"" (2016), ""Suicide Squad"" (2016), ""Snowden"" (2016), ""Walk of Fame"" (2017), ""The Fate of the Furious"" (2017), ""Overdrive"" (2017), and ""Pacific Rim Uprising"" (2018). He has also been the model for the fragrance Cool Water by Davidoff. He is the youngest son of Academy"
"Vas Blackwood Vasta Roy ""Vas"" Blackwood (born 19 October 1962) is a British actor from London. Blackwood played Lenny Henry's sidekick Winston Churchill in ""The Lenny Henry Show"" (1987) and David Sinclair in ""Casualty"" (1996–97). Since playing Rory Breaker in the hit film ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998) he has had a number of film roles, including ""Mean Machine"" (2001), ""9 Dead Gay Guys"" (2002) and ""Creep"" (2004). In 2005 he appeared in A Bear's Tail, a spin-off of ""Bo' Selecta!"". He also made an appearance as Lennox Gilbey in ""Only Fools and Horses"". He also played main"
"F. Kennedy's life. The film was among the top 10 box office performers in that year, earning $102 million in the United States alone. Later in 1993, he directed and co-starred alongside Kevin Costner in ""A Perfect World"". Set in the 1960s, Eastwood plays a Texas Ranger in pursuit of an escaped convict (Costner) who hits the road with a young boy (T.J. Lowther). Janet Maslin of ""The New York Times"" wrote that the film marked the highest point of Eastwood's directing career, and the film has since been cited as one of his most underrated directorial achievements. At the"
"The film earned a total domestic box office gross of $50,068,310, barely recouping its $50 million budget. The soundtrack to ""Absolute Power"" was released on March 11, 1997. Absolute Power (film) Absolute Power is a 1997 American political thriller film produced by, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood as a master jewel thief who witnesses the killing of a woman by Secret Service agents. The screenplay by William Goldman is based on the 1996 novel ""Absolute Power"" by David Baldacci. Screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, the film also stars Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott"
"separation and lingering bout of hepatitis during the mid-1960s, expressed desire to reconcile and start a family. They had two children together: Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) and Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972). In 1972, Eastwood met married actress (later director) Sondra Locke at a meeting in his office on the Universal Studios Lot. The two began living together while filming ""The Outlaw Josey Wales"" in Page, Arizona in October 1975, by which time, according to Locke, ""He had told me that there was no real relationship left between him and Maggie."" Locke wrote in her autobiography, ""Clint"
"wrote that the film was ""a haunting masterpiece and probably [Eastwood's] best film to date"". The film earned $156,822,020 worldwide with $90,135,191 in the United States and $66,686,829 in the international box office, which is significantly higher than the film's $30 million budget. Mystic River (film) Mystic River is a 2003 American mystery drama film directed and scored by Clint Eastwood. It stars Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney. The screenplay, written by Brian Helgeland, was based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. The film was produced by"